Got called fete lady today (humorous ish)

[sunnydalegottobedone]

Argh I've turned into crazy fete lady. In the last couple of days on numerous occasions - I've been entered into conversations as "you are the fete lady", "you are the fete lady". Would I be unreasonable to start donning a twin set and pearls?

So as not to drip feed, I do run the village fete, I think I am starting to become a fete bore, obsessed with it - can't get me to talk about anything else. To the extent I'm now starting a AIBU post about the flaming fete - HELP.

You need Splat the Rat. And a Human Fruit Machine.

andy a tombola is a kind of raffle. Lots of prizes with numbers attached to them. A barrel is filled with numbered bits of paper, and you buy so many goes at putting your hand and pulling out the numbers. If the number you pull out matches a number on one of the prizes - you win. It could be a bottle of shower gel or a decent bottle of wine.

I've never been to a fete.

knotty what is a human fruit machine? I am intrigued

Thanks, Sunny.

Do you have a tombola spinny thing, or is it tickets folded up in a bucket?

Oh fêtes are fabulous!
Do you have ferret roulette?

I thought you were referring to a proper TRINIDADIAN fete. If only someone would call me fete lady! you a clearly fetin like a boss!!!!

But is there a nettle eating competition? That is true countryside if you ask me plus bloody good entertainment (for the onlookers)

highalert a spinning contraption. It wouldn't be classed as a proper tombola otherwise - it would be deemed as scandalous to use a bucket

We know you only started this thread cos you are angling for someone to beg you to reveal its location so you can promote it in your usual shameless fashion

Being known as Fete lady in the general community is fine....

among your friends and family, you need to rein it in a bit lot.

I am park lady. I got the funding for our local park and youth club, that's good. My local friends all know about it. My less local friends may know, but only because I have mentioned it in passing.

I now want a ferret roulette...... Ideas for next year being taken from this thread. Love the nettle eating comp as well, but it's not really this part of the country. Struggle to find a decent Morris dancer round this way.

Ahh Morris dancing reminds me of a trip out to the country with my parents a couple of years ago. We found a lovely pub for lunch but we didn't realise that said pub was hosting the local Morris dancing team's AGM. We had to squeeze past them every time we went to the bar or toilets, and every time we accidentally set off a little jingle

saracen absolutely not. I'm just going a little do lally, and fancied a humorous how the hell did I end up becoming fete lady.

I am good at saying no to other fetes, school, charity ones etc, I'm no saint - and if I did more than one I think the family might disown me

Oh and I have it on good authority that ferret racing is lots of fun!

rusty that's a classic, love it.

'Tis true about the relative lack of fetes in London, but there are a few if you know where to look.

::taps side of nose::

Holy Trinity Clapham does a lovely country style fete every year for London people who are feeling the lack of such things. Being Clapham however, you also get to play "Spot the Guardian Journalist haggling over the second hand book stall" and "Listen for the Radio 4 Announcer Telling Her Children to Get Off That Bouncy Castle Right Now Jocasta! Or There Will Be No Trip To Nardullis Ice Cream Parlour!"

I really do now want ferret racing. I wanted jousting as well, I got archery.

It was quite surreal. Just as we were leaving the village they were getting ready to perform on the green. We considered staying but decided that we had heard enough bells for one day. From the frowns they gave us in the pub, one would think they hated the sound of their own bells!

Oh I have heard great things about Lambeth County Show but I have never managed to go. I will put it on my list

Good luck, I'm on a fete committee (not head fete lady), 2 weeks to go till ours. Advertising boards are up, gazebo's are being sourced, in case of rain, donations of bric a brac, cakes, bottles, books, toys are being requested from the whole village. Tables and chairs organised, stallholders all organising there own stalls. Cream teas, pimms, processco, beer, BBQ, ice creams all arranged. Punch and Judy, Band, kids dance group all booked. Grand raffle tickets are being sold. What have we forgotton?

Plants? Any decent fete has a plant stall and they're usually a good fundraiser.

North Lambeth parish fete (in the garden of Lambeth Palace) is another good 'un.

As much as I love London I am now dreaming of village life and conjuring up images of being a resident of Ambridge